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In case anyone was in doubt about how gross 4chan is, they apparently released the chatlogs for the #burgersandfries irc channel thinking it would support their claims that ZQ was "cherrypicking" a few screenshots to paint them in a bad light (and/or thinking no one would actually bother reading through it?). Anyways, all the trigger warnings, but turns out someone bothered to have a look and it's not exactly flattering.

There are some codes for cosmetic items and "grimoire cards" whatever the heck those are: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Destiny-Codes-List-Unlock-Emblems-Grimoire-Cards-Shaders-67155.html

I'll be playing on ps4 as dc_juv3nal edit: also I think I friend requested everyone in this thread

For single player only stuff I don't mind disc, but if it's a multiplayer thing, you want to be able to hop right in when you see a friend come online. Having to switch discs is a hasssle.

Greg Costikyan posted a blog entry on Gamasutra that got pulled for excessive profanity, but it can be found here.

We're not largely game devs (although there are one or two), but the Gamers With Jobs Vancouver contingent meets up every month and a half or so to play boardgames. It's pretty low stakes, i.e. I wouldn't really necessarily count any of them as IRL friends (as opposed to online/twitter friends/acquaintances), but it gets me out of the house, and if you're at a loss of what to say in terms of making conversation you can at least fall back on the fact that you're playing a boardgame. We do play Cards Against Humanity a fair amount, so if you're ideologically opposed to that (which is a position I'm not unsympathetic to) it may not be a good fit for you. When we've been over at somebody's house, we'll often have the worst cards removed, but the same can't be said when we're at Storm Crow and using their cards.

I have read that thread and I'm not 100% on what tegan means, BUT just from context, I'm a guess she means pulling out actual racial composition % is maybe important if your game is some kind of documentary game, but equally pretty irrelevant when you're dealing with a work of fiction. The racial mix doesn't reflect the numbers for that occupation/geographic area? Guess what, that beer brand and whiskey brand are also made up. OMIGOSH.

It's ok. We already know she's a ghost.

Further to that, while anyone can block and report for "spam" (in which case I'm pretty sure the report just gets ignored unless it reaches some ridiculous critical mass), reporting for abuse requires that you personally be the target of the abuse, otherwise they explicitly tell you they will not even read it. To add insult to injury, apparently they have some sort of hard cap on the number of reports for abuse you can make and Zoe Quinn hit that limit at day 3 of her ordeal and the limit hasn't been refreshed since then. Twitter apparently doesn't give a shit at all.

We have a security breach: https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/507654111123501056

Didn't really stop Alexander VI...

dunno if anyone's posted it yet, but here's the first song from Aphex Twin's upcoming Syro album

Eh, I'll take what I can get. I've not in general a lot of confidence in cops (see: Ferguson), but if they can do this, it's better than nothing.

This seems to have sort of been the idea behind These Are Our Lives. But oh look: https://twitter.com/lucyamorris/status/507423891258884096

jesus fucking christ. so much stupid.

Quinn raised some (IMO) valid points about doing spec work that haven't been adequately addressed by the FYC. If you go ahead and say donating money to the project is a good idea, you're playing into the rhetoric that Quinn was lying when she raised those concerns.

While you nappin, TychoCelchuuu, Corvus Elrod has been drinking your milkshake eating into your SEO/Marketshare.

*cough*

This Ars Technica article (via the latest TWIVGB) serves, I think, as a decent recap.

Elizabeth Simins says they're coming back, but hasn't offered up any more details: https://twitter.com/ElizSimins/status/505745869900369922

http://squinky.me/quing/

Nope, but if you like American Gods, I would recommend Tim Powers' Last Call. I may be biased though as I'm a huge T. S. Eliot fan.

Lana Polansky has a good piece about Kotaku's policy change re: patreon.

That's a valid point of view, and I wouldn't necessarily trust myself to either, but it's not my job.

At some point, even with a disclosure policy in place you're still going to have to trust the reviewer to be honest about following said policy. I really don't think that's hugely different that just trusting the reviewer to appropriately exercise the judgement to compartmentalize whatever feelings they might have from supporting a kickstarter/patreon and rendering an honest verdict regardless. And in the cases where they feel such compartmentalization is impossible, recusing themselves. It seems to me, if you don't trust the writer to be able to do those things, maybe you don't respect that reviewer to begin with. And if that's the case, why are you even reading the review? Disclosure policies don't do any real harm so I'm not strictly opposed to them per se, but really, folks, it still comes down to a matter of trust. Both Patreon and Kickstarter can be contributed to if not entirely anonymously then certainly via pseudonymous email such that no member of the public at large is going to be able to suss out the connection. It still comes down to trust.